{"id":11140,"date":"2009-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"regional-stock-markets-outperform-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/regional-stock-markets-outperform-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Regional stock markets outperform hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business24-7 &#8211; Six months after their worst drawdown on record, regional stock markets are outperforming the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)-focused hedge funds, suggesting markets are once again warming up to equity participation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Emirates Business <\/strong>research, Mena markets have posted gains of 9.73 per cent on average, beating the 10 region-focused hedge funds, which have posted returns of 4.4 per cent since the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Even the GCC markets, battered by their exposure to relatively lower oil prices and global economic environment, have turned in a marginally better performance, at 4.42 per cent, suggesting that risk appetite among investors in the regional markets is on the upswing.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.business24-7.ae\/Articles\/2009\/7\/Pages\/29072009\/07302009_710dcbe40d2043289032237ff4d5468d.aspx?FORM=ZZNR4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.business24-7.ae\/Articles\/2009\/7\/Pages\/29072009\/07302009_710dcbe40d2043289032237ff4d5468d.aspx?FORM=ZZNR4\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.business24-7.ae\/Articles\/2009\/7\/Pages\/29072009\/07302009_710dcbe40d2043289032237ff4d5468d.aspx?FORM=ZZNR4\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business24-7 &#8211; Six months after their worst drawdown on record, regional stock markets are outperforming the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)-focused hedge funds, suggesting markets are once again warming up to equity participation. According to Emirates Business research, Mena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14735,3104,2197,14733,14732,14731,11708,4504,9267,3890,1345,4450,14734,3438,13121,4976,458,14736],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-business-research","tag-drawdown","tag-emirates","tag-equity-participation","tag-gcc-markets","tag-global-economic-environment","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investors","tag-mena","tag-middle-east","tag-north-africa","tag-oil-prices","tag-regional-markets","tag-regional-stock","tag-risk-appetite","tag-six-months","tag-stock-markets","tag-upswing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}